Election of 1940: Franklin Roosevelt Breaks the Two Term Tradition
Candidates: Democratic Party: Franklin Roosevelt (New York) and Henry Wallace (Iowa) Republican Party: Wendell Willkie (New York) and Charles McNary (Oregon) Election Results: Roosevelt and Wallace: 27.31 million popular votes, 449 electoral votes. Willkie and McNary: 22.34 million popular votes, 82 electoral votes. Summary: As the 1940 presidential election loomed large, the question of whether ...